The Lumber Yard

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The lumber Yard!!!!

• By Indigo Beiboer

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Location!!!!

• The lumber yard is near the foreshore beside
  Scott street.

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Its Use!

• The supply of timber for constructing buildings
  for the settlement of Newcastle.
• The base for convicts building Nobby's breakwater.

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History!

• 1801 - First convict settlement at Newcastle, on
  this site. Beginning of Lumber Yard operations.
• 1822 - Newcastle closed as a penal settlement.
  Site ceases to be used for convict internment,
  but lumber operations continue.
• 1831 - Lumber Yard closed down.
• 1832 - Lumber Yard reopened as a base for
  convicts building Nobby's breakwater. Known as
  'The Stockade
• 1840 - Transportation of convicts to NSW ceases.
• 1846 - Nobby's Breakwater is completed and
  convict occupation is phased out.
• It is now a park.

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• The Convict Lumberyard encapsulates the key
  reasons for Newcastle's establishment as a penal
  settlement .
• The Convict Lumber Yard was one of Newcastle's
  first settlement sites

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Transformation!!!

• It is now a park it used to be a lumber yard were
  convicts got wood to build things like buildings
  and the governments house and stuff like that.

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• The Lumber Yard is a great place to play with
  friends and family as it is now a park!!! The
  Lumber Yard is now a friendly place to be and is
  exciting too!!!!!!!